PS Audio Introduces Power Plant Series For Superior Audio/Video PerformanceNew Genre Of Product Generates Pure AC Voltage To Improve A/V Quality

PS Audio, a specialist in developing superb high-performance audio equipment, has announced the immediate delivery of its Power Plant Series of A/V components that create new AC power - not by filtering or conditioning, but rather through regeneration. PS Audio Power Plants are, in fact, AC power generators for the home.The Power Plant components are designed to improve both the audio and video performance of home theatre and A/V systems by generating pure AC line voltage, which is significantly cleaner than the AC voltage provided by electric utility generating stations. PS Audio Power Plants are also impervious to noise, voltage fluctuations, and distortions typically present on AC line voltage.PS Audio offers four Power Plants, ranging in power from 300 watts to 2,000 watts. They include the Model P300, which powers all low-level products up to 300 watts; Model P600, which is designed to handle small to medium-sized power amplifiers up to 600 watts; Model P1200, which produces 1,200 watts of clean, regulated and balanced AC power; and Model P2000, which produces 2,000 watts of pure AC.""Power Plant generators outperform any commercially available line conditioner or filter,"" said PS Audio President Paul McGowan. ""We believe we have created in the Power Plant a new category of A/V product, and that its performance and design characteristics represent a leap forward in the voltage regulation available to A/V systems. ""The Power Plant Series is based on methodology used in high-technology industries to produce ""laboratory grade"" AC power for scientific and medical applications. PS Audio guarantees Power Plants will have an output distortion of less than 0.1 percent, regardless of the quality of incoming AC voltage. All Power Plant models produce regulated, low-impedance, low-distortion 115-volt AC power when fed from any line voltage source of 95 volts AC to 260 volts AC.The Power Plant Series is virtually impervious to line fluctuations and surges, and offers full protection from lightning strikes. Output voltage fluctuations are guaranteed not to exceed 0.3 volts rms.Power Plant vs. Power ConditionersThe primary difference between a conventional power conditioner and the PS Audio Power Plant can be found in their names - power conditioners ""condition"" - but the Power Plant generates new power.Power conditioners typically consist of either a series or parallel low-pass filter, or simply an isolation transformer. None of these devices are capable of regulating AC voltage, nor lowering the AC impedance of the line voltage. In fact, if you place a series filter power conditioner between the wall socket and your electronics, a higher impedance will be presented to the unit powered by the conditioner.For best performance, a cleaner, lower impedance AC source is needed that is at least 100 times better than what comes out of the wall. This is impossible for a power conditioner, but not for the PS Audio Power Plant. Such a power generator requires a near perfect AC source and a powerful low distortion output generator. Both these items are inside every PS Audio Power Plant.Since power conditioners filter, they can rob an A/V system of liveliness. Power Plants, on the other hand, produce new energy, adding vitality to A/V systems. Audio products benefit due to the low impedance and low distortion provided by Power Plant output. Video systems benefit because of the output voltage regulation of the Power Plant.By ""producing new energy,"" PS Audio means that the Power Plant generates fully balanced, regulated power by first accepting the AC energy coming out of the AC socket, converting it to DC, then transforming it back to AC with distortion products less than 0.1 percent.Using a high-end, 300 to 2,000-watt internal stereo audio power amplifier, fed by an ultra low distortion DSP sine wave generator, Power Plant models output perfect 60-Hz, 115-volt line voltage that provides a staggering sonic and visual improvement.Power Plant models include a user-adjustable frequency control, dubbed ""Power Factor."" Customers are able to increase the output frequency of the AC voltage produced by the Power Plant by a factor of two. PS Audio engineering suggests that raising the output frequency of the Power Plant also effectively raises the power supply efficiency of the unit being powered by a like amount.Video ApplicationsVideo projectors and CRT-based monitors benefit greatly from Power Plant technology, since their demands for current fluctuate with the video pictureís constantly changing brightness level. PS Audio has found that the human eye is quite sensitive to this form of ""dynamic video compression,"" which is caused by modulation of the line voltage. Regulating the AC that feeds the video projector or CRT greatly improves the perceived ""film like"" quality of a video image.PS Audio Power plants will be distributed directly to the customer via e-commerce and telephone sales, and through PS Audioís network of dealers and distributors. PS Audio sales and marketing is headed by Mark L. Schifter of Perpetual Technology. All Power Plants come with a full 30-day money back guarantee.For additional information, please visit PS Audioís highly informative Web site at http://www.psaudio.com or contact Mark Schifter at 303 543 7500.PS Audio Power PlantsModel P300 $995 Model P600 $1,995Model P1200 $2,995Model P2000 $4,950About PS AudioPS Audio was created in 1974 as the brainchild of audio designers Paul McGowan (""P"") and Stan Warren (""S""). Dedicated to developing superb high-performance audio components at uncommonly reasonable prices, PS Audio soon became known as a company that was passionate in its quest for better sound. It was heralded by the audiophile press as ""The poor man's Audio Research,"" and further honored by loyal customers who purchased thousands of PS Audio amps, preamps, and digital products.Most of McGowanís electronics experience was gained through self-taught efforts at designing a musical synthesizer. In the mid 1970ís, McGowan built and designed the worldís first polyphonic musical synthesizer, up to this point even the best known synthesizer brands, Moog and ARP, were only one note at a time.Stan Warren left the company in the early 1980s to form Superphon. His role as audio designer and co-owner was taken over by another gifted audio designer, Dr. Bob Odell. McGowan left the company in 1990 to join the legendary Arnie Nudell of Infinity Systems in building high-end loudspeakers with Genesis Technologies.In early 1998, PS Audio ceased operations due to financial problems. However, soon after, Paul McGowan purchased the name PS Audio and, in January 1999, left Genesis to devote himself to PS Audioís renewal.McGowan says ""My design philosophy can be summed up in fairly simple terms: I donít like Band-Aid approaches to problems - I look for the underlying problem and fix it."" Along with his design philosophy McGowan has an ability to ""hear"" circuits in his mind, this has resulted in design concepts such as the new PS amp where a number of unique circuits and topology exists solely because he understands what each of their elements will contribute to the whole. McGowan is one of the few remaining analog design experts, who are extremely competent at being able to comprehend a design, and knowing how to technically improve it.To handle sales and marketing for the new company, McGowan choose long-time friend Mark L. Schifter, formerly with Genesis Technologies and past president of Audio Alchemy. Schifter has also started a new company called Perpetual Technologies, which is introducing the worldís first affordable loudspeaker/room correction device.